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Article: An apology for picturesque architecture.
- Article from:
- The Architectural Review
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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We must generate a sense of the picturesque for the delight of the public while making buildings that enhance the live of their inhabitants.
It has to be admitted: since we started designing buildings from the inside out, we have found it difficult to do the outsides.
For A.W.N. Pugin, who was one of the well-springs of this approach to architecture, the problem was not very difficult: 'An architect should exhibit his skill by turning the difficulties which occur in raising an elevation from a convenient plan into so many picturesque beauties.'[1]
But for Pugin (who had served in his youth as an assistant to Jeffry Wyatville, that master of the ...